fenrir is a pretty nice screen reader, it comes with jenux On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 8:57 AM Sebastian Humenda <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all > > Samuel Thibault schrieb am 30.12.2021, 8:10 +0100: > >D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le mer. 29 déc. 2021 21:56:55 -0500, a ecrit: > >> Also with Slint, arguably the most accessible of them all, you have the > choice > >> of various screen readers in console: > >> > >> espeakup (Console screen reader connecting espeak-ng and speakup) > >> fenrir (Modular, flexible and fast console screen reader) > >> speechd-up (Console screen reader connecting Speech Dispatcher and > speakup) > > > >You also have the same choice on other distributions such as Debian. > > Let me use this opportunity to thank all those who make this happen. I have > been using Debian during my studies and now during work for more than 10 > years > now. Real console (BRLTTY with speech) and GUI (Orca). Great documentation, > friendly people helping out and a lot of choice. And good to hear that > other > distributions apparently also have good people doing the distributor's work > ;). > > Regarding the original topic. I actually prefer Rust for critical > components > for many technical reasons and I could imagine that Python's global > interpreter lock (GIL) is possibly not great for a screen reader either. > However, given the limited resources on a11y, in particular on the GUI, I > also > would favour extending Orca. But in the end it is the spare time of people, > and we can probably only start complaining if we actually pay them. > > Cheers > Sebastian > >
